Community Tasting Note

• paul195 wrote: 94 points

  February 23, 2019 - Paired the 1999 Falletto and le Rocche this evening. Both were decanted for 2 hours and back in the bottle for another 3.
  
  The Le Rocche had loads of sediment and was clearly the darker, younger looking wine. The Falletto had the more open and forthcoming bouquet filled with red fruit, rose petals, spice, tar and earth. The Rocche was darker, with tighter bluer fruit.
  
  The vintages higher acidity level complemented the Falletto’s more mature red cherry fruit adding energy and balancing its fine tannins........
  
  Today the Falletto was more ready to go, youthful, elegant and delicious with a bright future. The Le Rocche’s fruit darker and denser and seemed the more serious of these two 20 year old Barolos likely the superior wine over the next decade or two.

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